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Decentralization Helps Firms Weather Turbulent Times

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper highlights the importance of a decentralized organizational structure during such periods of turbulence. The data revealed that in the sectors where the crisis struck hardest, those who operated a more decentralized approach outperformed their more centralized rivals in terms of productivity, sales, and ultimately, survival.

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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

We are witnessing the creation of an entirely new paradigm, a fierce wave of technological innovation boosting generations of new businesses and business leaders. Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3D printing, and robotics are among the most important technologies of today’s rapidly changing world.

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How Data Can Support Decentralized Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

I’ve written a number of times in the past about the increasingly recombinative nature of innovation, and data analytics can be a great help in achieving that recombination of ideas and technologies. Analytics can connect those dots, and the research found works especially well in decentralized innovation environments.

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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

The advent of technology that enables remote work combined with the ever-increasing rate of employee turnover in many industries has led to a transformation in the very fabric of organizational culture. But today’s decentralized office environment makes it harder to socialize culture, foster a sense of unity, and reinforce shared values.

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How to Prepare Your Workforce for the Future of Work

Lead from Within

As the landscape of business undergoes seismic shifts due to technologies like AI and blockchain, leaders face the challenge of future-proofing their workforce. The Rise of Holacracy: The trend towards decentralized leadership—sometimes known as holacracy—challenges the traditional hierarchy of organizations.

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New Leadership Literacies

Lead Change Blog

The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. Rigid hierarchies will give way to liquid structures.

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Why Integrating Cryptocurrency Payments Will Put Your Business One Step Ahead Of The Game

Strategy Driven

Huge amounts of interest have even been shown by large financial institutions, who are becoming more and more convinced that cryptocurrency has the technology to become widely accepted as a payment source. You want decentralized finance explained for you? Bitcoin is a technology, and currency is the first application.